Blogs from Te Anau, Fiordland National Park, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania - page 6

אז היום קמנו לבוקר ממש גשום בקווינסטאון ופשוט התבאסנו מהמחשבה שזה הולך להיות ככה גם בטה אנאו. ולמה? כי טה אנאו היא המקום שיורד בו הכי הרבה גשם בניו זילנד.. יופי... בכל אופן, אחרי שעתיים נסיעה גילינו שהפסימיות הייתה מוקדמת. יש פה אחלה מזג אוויר!!!! איזה נס!!! בכל אופן, חשבנו שאולי נספיק להגיע בזמן ולצאת לכיוון המילפורד סאונד. למי שלא יודע מדובר באחד המקומות היפים בעולם, והטרק שעושים בו, שנמשך 4 ימים נחשב ליפה בעולם. אלא, שהמקומות לטרק הזה סגורים כבר חצי שנה מראש, אז אנחנו נסתפק בשייט, שאמור להיות לא פחות יפה.. מכיוון שהגענו קצת מאוחר לטה אנאו, החלטנו לדחות את השייט למחר, וככה "נתקענו" עם הרבה זמן פנוי, אז החלטנו לנצל אותו לביקור במרכז חיות הבר. הביקור היה מאוד מיוחד - היו שם מלא מלא כלובים שהמשותף לכולם זה.. שהם היו ריקים!!! כלום!! שום ... read more

Te Anou is beautifully situated next to Lake Manapouri and makes a great base for walking and trips to the fiords. It is also quite big so has a choice of eating and drinking establishments. In the afternoon that I arrived I visited the Department of Conservation visitor centre and visited the glow worm caves. The visitot centre is the main booking office for the many famous walking tracks in the area. The most famous is the Milford Track which has to be booked months in advance as the only accomodation on the track is in the huts and places are very limited. Some tracks are in complete wilderness areas and are pretty extreme. The rainfall in the area is tremendous and I overheard on of the DOC staff explaing the the water levels can quickly ... read more

Heeeeey everyone! Just a brief update as it hasn't been that long, but here's what we've been up to the last few days. Hope you all enjoyed the pictures from last time...it took us 3 hours to upload them all and they're not officially on snapfish so if you haven't gotten a copy of them from me, let me know and I'll send you a link. OH yeah, and just in case I wasn't clear, we titled the last entry Ben-E-dryl because the sandflies here rather irritating and have taken a liking to Ben and my sweeeet American blood. Okay, so after setting up camp in the Wanaka internet cafe, we went for a nice long walk around the lake and got a taste for some of the lovely architecture of NZ expensive lake homes. We ... read more

I first arrived in Te Anau on the 5th of April and promptly took off for Milford Sound, driving up the Milford Rd....spectacular is all I can say. At one point you go through a tunnel, that is over 1KM long. It goes right through this vertical wall of rock. I really couldn't see any way up and over this wall at all, it is sheer. In Milford I did a day's sea kayaking trip.... once again... spectacular. I really can't describe in words what I saw. I hope my pictures do, we'll see. Also it was rainy and cloudy my whole time in and around Milford. Ok, back to Milford.... just spectacular. Though we couldn't see the tops of any of the mountains around because of clouds. The best part of the rain and clouds ... read more

WARNING. THIS BLOG CONTAINS 10 ZILLION WATERFALL SHOTS. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ‘‘Look’’, exclaimed Shaz ‘‘It’s a dead parrot!’’ ‘‘It’s not dead’’ said Alan ‘‘It’s just tired out after a long squawk.’’ (laughs). About 5 weeks ago we’d stopped at the side of the road to admire / photo a nice mountain view. As we got out of the car, Shaz spied the said (truly dead) bird next to the front wheel. Such is our humour these days; razor sharp and totally plagiarised. Of course that story has nothing to do with this blog, other than a mild reference to the title. NOTE: All non Monty Python fans, may, at this stage, leave the building. So we’ve found ourselves Daan Saaaaf (down south) in Fjord land. We came here with the specific purpose of going on ... read more